ELECTION 2014 - Merged Threads

[HoneyBadger]

Again, someone explain why voting for a candidate that garners 1.1-1.8% of the vote is doing anything but tossing your ballet in the garbage? Yeah, that's really fucking changing things there. Brace yourselves, here come the "We heard this same song and dance with Romney/Obama in '12, anything to get rid of Obama." Yeah, and you 3rd party folks didn't listen that time either. I won't be the one to harp and whine on the 3rd party people without a viable solution- so here it is: if your 3rd party cannot amount to more than 3% of the vote (that's giving them a lot more than what we've seen, Gary Johnson got .9%) then what about trying to change one of the parties... enough voices will eventually become a catalyst for change, it happened with the progressive movement within the Democrat party, and it looked like it was going somewhere with the Tea Party movement within the Republican party (see the 2010 shakeup). Why not instead of protest and huff and go "I'm never voting for those meanie face republicans again!" rise up and say "Let's change this party. It looks too much like the Democrat party, we need to make it better!" So many are willing to jump ship and try out a different boat, but that different boat is way too small and too leaky to make the voyage. Why not fix the ship you were on instead? I would apply this same logic to Colorado, but I repeat my previous fear that I think this is going to be a fairly blue state for quite some time... Considering Boulder and Denver are doing nothing but expanding.

I'll ignore and avoid the ad hominems, but honestly, what do you think Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are doing? They are invoking change from within the party.